INTRODUCTION
It is another glorious Workers Day. Oftentimes, it is a day for celebration and recounting of triumphs. But what has the Nigeria workers got to celebrate or what triumph is there to recount? Their incapacitation is not due to laziness, senility, lack of a sense of purpose or unpatriotic tendencies of the Nigerian Workers. It is the consequent of a conglomerate of factors. Today's workers day, is a day to shut down the country and demand for a better standard of living for the working people, today's workers day is a day to barricade and demand for true Federalism and Restructuring of the country.
WHY WE CANNOT JUBILATE
(a) Bad governmental social - political and economic policies have eroded the sweat of Nigerian workers. APC led Administration and PDP at all level has continued to make life difficult by bad governance and anti workers and masses policies.
(B) Security situation of the country has make life difficult for the Workers and the people at large, we hardly heard good news or report in respect to security situation of the country in the last few months and government at all level failed to take pragmatic action to secure our life and properties.
(C) Nigeria economy is in shambles despite daily sacrifices of the workers.
(D) Labour leadership has been very lukewarm in challenging all destructive economic policies of the autocratic government.
(e) Government owing months of salaries and renumerations of workers has subjected workers to live a very miserable lifes.
WHAT TO BE DONE
(a) NLC should link up with genuine veteran trade unionist and committed comrades for a genuine vanguard.
(b) They should critically engage government to address issues affecting workers raging from security of life and properties, welfare of the workers and guide government towards true Federalism and immediate Restructuring make the country works for all.
(c) They should look forward beyond the coming NLC elections, edge out all the so called conspirators and flush out the executive and other unpatriotic opportunists in the
Congress.
(d) NLC should align with authentic and relevant mass organizations.
(e) They should look forward to the formation of a genuine labour movement which will include the peasants, market women and Nigerian students.
We must struggle to save our Country. Nigerian workers, market women, Unite! Organise!! And struggle for the emergence of a genuine egalitarian society. The struggle is now or never.
Forward ever, till victory always!!!
Aluta Continua!!!
Com. Abiola Adam LATEEF.
(Harwolowo)
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